At 12:30 PM -0500 3/23/99, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> I point out to students that there are basically four ways to
>establish belief:by authority,feelins,reason and the scientific.
>SNIP...
>psychology examines all these
>methods in order to allow them to look for flaws in arguments.
I was under the impression (drilled into me by all of my undergrad psych
profs and by a tough crew of graduate school advisors/professors/mentors
that psychology actually uses the *last* of these - the scientific method -
to ask its questions, which separates us from other ways of knowing about
how people think, feel, and behave.
Michael -
Is psychology not a science to you?
Johnna
Johnna K. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Illinois Wesleyan University "Thousands of years ago,
Bloomington, IL 61702 cats were worshipped as gods.
309/556-3164 or 556-3803 Cats have never forgotten this."
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